The Illinois Appellate Court of the First District, in an opinion authored by Justice James G. Fitzgerald Smith, affirmed a jury verdict in the amount of $10,912,500 against the University of Chicago Hospitals and upheld a trial court decision to refuse three of the hospital’s special interrogatories. The plaintiff sued the hospital on behalf of her son, who suffered brain damage at birth. The original verdict was rendered at trial before Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Flannery.